PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Dr.Vidya Ramkumar,Ph.D.
About Dr. Vidya Ramkumar
Dr. Vidya Ramkumar has spent the last decade working in developing service delivery models using technology to bridge gaps in audiology services in the underserved regions of South India.
She was recently awarded the Wellcome Trust-DBT India Alliance Clinical and public health fellowship (2020) at the intermediate level to pursue translational research in tele-practice applications in audiology and speech-language pathology services in collaboration with the public sector services in Tamil Nadu. She is also a Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Professional Research fellowship awardee (2014). Her PhD was in the area of tele-audiological application in rural newborn hearing screening programs in South India.
She received the NIH sponsored “New investigator award” at the 3rd International Conference on Internet and Audiology, KY, USA in 2017.
She is a life member of Telemedicine Society of India, Indian Speech and Hearing Association and actively participates in the meetings of these societies.
RESEARCH COLLABORATORS
Dr.Lakshmi V
Dr.Subramaniyan.B
Professor & Consultant Speech Language Pathologist,
The Cleft & Craniofacial Centre
Department of Plastic Surgery,
Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital.
Chromepet, Chennai ,Tamilnadu, India
Prof.Roopa Nagarajan
Prof.Anil Prabhakar
Dr.Shuba Kumar
STAKEHOLDER COLLABORATORS
Office of the STATE COMMISSIONER for the differently abled, Tamil Nadu
District Differently Abled Welfare Officer (DDAWO) -Ariyalur and Perambalur districts
NGO, INDO Trust , Ariyalur
NGO, READ, Perambalur
MENTORS AND ADVISORS
Prof.Hannah Kuper
Dr. James W. Hall
Dr. V Muraleedharan
RESEARCH FELLOW
Ms.Deepashree Joshi .B
PhD SCHOLARS
Part-time internal
2018
Senior clinical faculty
Sri Ramachandra Faculty of Audiology and Speech, Language Pathology
Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (DU), Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
Full-time
2021
Research Fellow
Sri Ramachandra Faculty of Audiology and Speech, Language Pathology
Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (DU), Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
Part-time external
2021
Department of ASLP NISH
National Institute of Speech and Hearing
Tiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
PROJECT ASSISTANT
Sri Ramachandra Faculty of Audiology and Speech, Language Pathology
Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (DU),
Chennai , Tamilnadu, India
NGO GRASSROOT WORKERS
NGO Worker
INDO Trust , Ariyalur
Tamilnadu,
India